Overview
- Proposes a novel cross-disciplinary concept of disaster risk reduction
- Appeals to academics, researchers, students, decision-makers and practitioners
- Directly addresses Sustainable Development Goal 11
Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 53)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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About this book
The convergent approach with the aspects of natural, engineering, and social sciences attracts a vast audienceworking to advance disaster science. This book also significantly facilitates the acquisition of policy-relevant knowledge for risk reduction, which is beneficial to the general public.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sandeep has been working as an assistant professor in the Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) since 2016. His research interests include simulating strong ground motions, Site estimations and Earthquake Early Warnings. He is a lead or co-author of 32 journal articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Sandeep has also contributed to the scientific community as a reviewer of many research articles and projects. Sandeep is a recipient of many prestigious awards including Order of Merit Award (Young Scientists) by Indian Society of Earthquake Science (ISES), J.G. Negi Young Scientist award by Indian Geophysical Union and SERB-SIRE fellowship by DST, GoI for his significant contributions in the field of seismology.
Himanshu Mittal currently works as a scientist-E at the National Centre for Seismology, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi, India. His major expertise is in strong-motion seismology, earthquake hazard assessment, site characterization and Earthquake Early Warning (EEW), among other areas. Earlier, he has worked at many positions including Research Associate and Scientist at IIT Roorkee, Research Scientist (Post-doc) atNational Taiwan University (NTU) and National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. Recently, he has developed EEW systems for different regions worldwide. He has published more than 40 research papers in SCI-indexed international journals and is actively engaged in collaboration with various national and international institutes.
Roshan Kumar currently works as an assistant professor at the Department of Electronic and Information Technology, Miami College of Henan University, China. Earlier, he completed his post-doc position at Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include earthquake early warning systems, seismic signal processing and landslide warning systems. He holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, and a Master’s from Thapar University, India. To date, he has published more than 15 papers in his short academic career.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geohazards
Book Subtitle: Analysis, Modelling and Forecasting
Editors: Sandeep, Parveen Kumar, Himanshu Mittal, Roshan Kumar
Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3955-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-3954-1Published: 27 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-3957-2Due: 27 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-3955-8Published: 26 August 2023
Series ISSN: 1878-9897
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 193
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geology, Artificial Intelligence